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width:16px;height:16px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" style=\"display: inline; width:16px;height:16px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: none; box-shadow: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/jafma.net\/ana\/theweekendarchaeologist\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/32x32\/mail.png\" \/><\/a><p><a id=\"spanish\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#english\">[In English]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>La culpa de que sea una friki de La Guerra de las Rosas es de tres elementos inconexos que en 2013 crearon\u00a0 la tormenta lancastrianoyorkista perfecta: una estancia de investigaci\u00f3n en Plymouth, la serie <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_White_Queen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>La Reina Blanca (The White Queen)<\/em><\/a>, y que\u00a0 ese verano estaba preparando para septiembre las asignaturas de Historia Medieval de 1\u00ba del Grado de Historia en la UNED (alg\u00fan d\u00eda lo retomar\u00e9, lo juro). <em>La Reina Blanca<\/em> se estren\u00f3 al poco de llegar a RU, y como intentaba ver la tele para perfeccionar el o\u00eddo y me ven\u00eda bien para repasar las asignaturas, me enganch\u00e9 a ella. Adem\u00e1s, en mi opini\u00f3n, RU es el para\u00edso de los historiadores (o los proyectos de historiadora, como servidora), y me result\u00f3 muy f\u00e1cil encontrar libros, museos, y visitas que me ayudaron a aprender m\u00e1s sobre el tema.<\/p>\n<p>La <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guerra_de_las_Dos_Rosas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guerra de las Rosas<\/a> es un culebr\u00f3n lleno de Enriques y Eduardos que eran parientes porque pertenec\u00edan a\u00a0 la casa de Lancaster (la rosa roja) o la de York (la rosa blanca), ambas pertenecientes a la casa Plantagenet.\u00a0 Para contextualizar la historia mejor (y disfrutar mucho) es muy interesante verse la serie de la BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hollow_Crown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Hollow Crown<\/em><\/a>, basada en las obras de teatro &#8220;hist\u00f3ricas&#8221; de Shakespeare que cubren los antecedentes de la Guerra de las Rosas y el conflicto en s\u00ed: Ricardo II (<a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Whishaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Whishaw<\/a>), Enrique IV (<a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeremy_Irons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeremy Irons<\/a>), Enrique V (<a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_Hiddleston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Hiddleston<\/a>), Enrique VI (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_Sturridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Sturridge<\/a>) y Ricardo III (<a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benedict_Cumberbatch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benedict Cumberbatch<\/a>). S\u00ed, yo tambi\u00e9n he suspirado varias veces \ud83d\ude42 Si lo que quer\u00e9is es daros un repaso entero de la historia de RU a trav\u00e9s de pelis y series, <a href=\"https:\/\/crissover.wordpress.com\/2018\/05\/03\/tu-ya-te-sabes-esto-flojiguia-a-la-monarquia-inglesa-y-iii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aqu\u00ed ten\u00e9is una serie de posts<\/a> geniales del blog de Cristina Urdiales.<\/p>\n<p>Antes de entrar en faena, aviso:\u00a0 aunque son hechos hist\u00f3ricos, si alguien no sabe nada del tema y es hipersensible con los destripes, que no siga leyendo \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 ; en todo caso, puede irse al final de la entrada donde comento un par de <a href=\"#spinoffsESP\">spin-offs<\/a> y la <a href=\"#biblio\">bibliograf\u00eda<\/a>. Todas las fotos est\u00e1n tomadas de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2372220\/mediaindex?page=2&amp;ref_=ttmi_mi_sm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">la galer\u00eda de la serie en IMDB\u00a0<\/a>o son m\u00edas. Y ahora vamos al l\u00edo.<\/p>\n<p>Los personajes masculinos m\u00e1s importantes de <em>La Reina Blanca<\/em> son los que veis en la foto, los tres hermanos York: Eduardo IV (<a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Irons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Max Irons<\/a>, en el centro), Jorge Duque de Clarence (<a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Oakes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Oakes<\/a>, a la izda), y Ricardo Duque de Gloucester y futuro Ricardo III (<a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aneurin_Barnard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aneurin Barnard<\/a>, a la derecha). Me encanta la foto, y son las caras con las que me represento mentalmente a los tres.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pswp__img\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/M\/MV5BYTQ5NTVlMWEtMzgxYi00ODhkLThlNDctNWU5NzQ2NmFlMWJmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjEwNDMwNzI@._V1_SY1000_SX1500_AL_.jpg\" alt=\"The White Queen (2013)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Y ahora vamos a la chicha de esta entrada, los tres personajes femeninos principales: Isabel Woodville (<a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rebecca_Ferguson_(actriz)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rebecca Ferguson<\/a>), Ana Neville (<a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Faye_Marsay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faye Marsay<\/a>) y Margarita Beaufort (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amanda_Hale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amanda Hale<\/a>). Cada una de ellas por separado tiene una vida apasionante, pero la interacci\u00f3n entre las tres y c\u00f3mo los acontecimientos las van llevando desde lo m\u00e1s alto a lo m\u00e1s bajo me parecen fascinantes. En Espa\u00f1a tambi\u00e9n tenemos ejemplos de mujeres fuertes y poderosas (<a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isabel_I_de_Castilla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Isabel la Cat\u00f3lica<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Urraca_I_de_Le%C3%B3n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Urraca de Le\u00f3n<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catalina_de_Lancaster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catalina de Lancaster,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catalina_de_Arag%C3%B3n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catalina de Arag\u00f3n<\/a>&#8230;), pero cada una jug\u00f3 un papel m\u00e1s aislado e independiente.<\/p>\n<p>Empezamos por Isabel Woodville. Isabel naci\u00f3 alrededor de 1437, y era la primog\u00e9nita de Ricardo Woodville y Jacquetta de Luxemburgo.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pswp__img\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/M\/MV5BMjM2ODI3NDY4OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODE0MjY1OQ@@._V1_SY1000_SX1500_AL_.jpg\" alt=\"Rebecca Ferguson in The White Queen (2013)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ricardo pertenec\u00eda a una familia adinerada pero no noble,\u00a0 y hab\u00eda estado al servicio del Duque de Bedford,\u00a0 t\u00edo de Enrique VI, que era el rey en ese momento, mientras que Jacquetta de Luxemburgo era la joven viuda del Duque de Bedford. Isabel Woodville se cas\u00f3 con un caballero partidario de los Lancaster, Juan Grey, del que enviud\u00f3 en la segunda batalla de Saint Albans qued\u00e1ndose con dos hijos (Tom\u00e1s y Ricardo Grey) a su cargo. Isabel conoci\u00f3 al rey Eduardo IV de una forma bastante peliculera, y finalmente se casaron en secreto. Isabel por tanto se convirti\u00f3 en reina consorte de Inglaterra, provocando un rebote considerable en <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ricardo_Neville_(1428-1471)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ricardo Neville, conde de Warwick<\/a> y conocido como el <em>Kingmaker<\/em>, que ya ten\u00eda apalabrado el matrimonio de Eduardo con una heredera extranjera, lo m\u00e1s apropiado para cualquier rey de la \u00e9poca.<\/p>\n<p>Isabel y Eduardo tuvieron una larga descendencia (aqu\u00ed ten\u00e9is un <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y8n644x6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">timeline con los nacimientos<\/a> de cada uno gracias al fant\u00e1stico servicio de consultas <a href=\"https:\/\/query.wikidata.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPARQL de Wikidata<\/a>). Adem\u00e1s, la reina consorte fue casando a sus hermanas y hermanos con nobles, generando tambi\u00e9n bastantes roces en la corte, ya que se ve\u00eda a la familia Woodville como unos advenedizos. Isabel sufri\u00f3 los vaivenes del reinado de Eduardo, incluyendo la etapa en la que Enrique VI volvi\u00f3 al trono y que supuso que ella tuviera que acogerse a sagrado en la Abad\u00eda de Westminster.<\/p>\n<p>El 9 de abril de 1483 la vida de Isabel cambia por completo: Eduardo IV muere de forma bastante repentina y ella pasa a ser la reina viuda y madre del futuro rey, su hijo Eduardo V, que en ese momento se encontraba en el castillo de Ludlow (Gales) bajo la tutela de su hermano Antonio Woodville. A partir de este momento los acontecimientos se precipitan &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/jafma.net\/ana\/theweekendarchaeologist\/?p=745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aqu\u00ed puede consultarse una cronolog\u00eda<\/a> que prepar\u00e9 sobre el tema- pero, en resumen, para finales de verano de ese mismo a\u00f1o Isabel ya no es reina puesto que Ricardo III y Ana Neville han subido al trono; su marido, su hermano y uno de sus hijos mayores han muerto; toda su descendencia con Eduardo IV ha sido declarada ileg\u00edtima, sus hijos Eduardo y Ricardo est\u00e1n en paradero desconocido, y ella est\u00e1 de nuevo refugiada en Westminster con el resto de sus hijas.\u00a0 Isabel volver\u00eda a la corte de Ricardo III, aunque mientras tanto conspiraba (con Margarita Beaufort, entre otros) para revertir la situaci\u00f3n. Finalmente, lograr\u00eda ver a su hija mayor Isabel de York convertida en reina al casarse precisamente el hijo de Margarita, Enrique Tudor, que reinar\u00eda como Enrique VII tras derrotar a Ricardo III en la batalla de Bosworth. Isabel morir\u00eda retirada en la abad\u00eda de Bermondsey en 1492.<\/p>\n<p>Entre las reinas consortes Isabel Woodville y su hija Isabel de York hubo otra consorte: Ana Neville (1456-1485), hija del <em>Kingmaker<\/em> y esposa de Ricardo III. Quiz\u00e1s sea el personaje que m\u00e1s ternura me inspira por lo tr\u00e1gico de su vida, que coment\u00e9 hace unos a\u00f1os en <a href=\"http:\/\/jafma.net\/ana\/theweekendarchaeologist\/?p=410\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">esta entrada<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pswp__img\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/M\/MV5BZGY1NGI1NjUtNTFmYy00NGJlLWI0MzUtNTU3MDcxOWE1ODkzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjEwNDMwNzI@._V1_.jpg\" alt=\"The White Queen (2013)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Resumiendo, en 1471, a los 15 a\u00f1os, con su padre muerto y su madre enclaustrada en un convento, era Princesa Viuda de Gales al morir en la batalla de Tewkesbury su marido, Eduardo de Westminster, el hijo de Enrique VI y Margarita de Anjou. En 1472 se cas\u00f3 con Ricardo Duque de Gloucester, al que conoc\u00eda desde ni\u00f1a, y que parad\u00f3jicamente pertenec\u00eda a la familia que hab\u00eda llevado a la suya a la ruina. Cuando Ricardo logr\u00f3 el trono en 1483 ella pas\u00f3 a ser reina consorte, aunque no lleg\u00f3 a sobrevivir a Ricardo en su corto reinado: su \u00fanico hijo Eduardo de Middleham morir\u00eda con nueve a\u00f1os en 1484, y ella lo sigui\u00f3 en poco menos de un a\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p>Finalmente, <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margarita_Beaufort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Margarita Beaufort<\/a>, la <em>tapada<\/em> que al final logra el \u00e9xito. En la serie aparece como una madre obsesionada por colocar a su hijo en el trono fuera como fuera, y por eso quiz\u00e1s es con la que menos empatizo, pero tambi\u00e9n es verdad que su vida tampoco fue f\u00e1cil, y que me falta mucho por leer sobre ella.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pswp__img\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/M\/MV5BMTc2MzE2OTAwNF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjE2MjYwMDE@._V1_SY1000_SX1500_AL_.jpg\" alt=\"Amanda Hale in The White Queen (2013)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Margaret naci\u00f3, seguramente, en 1443, hija de John Beaufort Duque de Somerset (los Beaufort eran una rama bastarda descendiente de Juan de Gante, el patriarca de los Lancaster; Enrique IV la reconocer\u00eda legalmente pero con la prohibici\u00f3n expresa de acceder al trono). Margarita se cas\u00f3 con Edmundo Tudor,\u00a0 hermanastro de Enrique VI al ser hijo de la ex-reina Catalina de Valois, que tras enviudar de Enrique V se cas\u00f3 con Owen Tudor, un militar gal\u00e9s&#8230; os dije que esto era un culebr\u00f3n \ud83d\ude42 ). Cuando se casaron, Margarita ten\u00eda 12 a\u00f1os y Edmundo ten\u00eda 24. El resultado de esta uni\u00f3n es que con trece a\u00f1os, Margarita era una viuda embarazada de su primer hijo, que a la postre ser\u00eda el primer rey Tudor, Enrique VII.<\/p>\n<p>Margarita se casar\u00eda posteriormente con Henry Stafford, del que enviudar\u00eda tras la batalla de Barnet (1471) en la que\u00a0 Henry luch\u00f3 a favor de los York. Volvi\u00f3 a contraer matrimonio en 1472 con Thomas Lord Stanley. Margarita tuvo su lugar en la corte de Isabel Woodville, y tambi\u00e9n en la de Ana Neville mientras que conspiraba con Isabel para derrocar a Ricardo III.\u00a0 En la batalla de Bosworth en 1485 Lord Stanley dejar\u00eda tirado a Ricardo III y facilitar\u00eda la victoria de Enrique Tudor, el hijo de Margarita, que acceder\u00eda as\u00ed al trono. Aunque nunca fue reina, Margarita recibi\u00f3 el tratamiento de madre del rey, y cuando Enrique VII se cas\u00f3 con Isabel de York, Margarita se convirti\u00f3 en consuegra de Isabel Woodville. Margarita muri\u00f3 en 1509 y est\u00e1 enterrada en la Abad\u00eda de Westminster.<\/p>\n<p>Aparte de estos tres personajes femeninos principales, hay otras mujeres relacionadas con La Guerra de las Rosas que tambi\u00e9n me interesan mucho y a las que a\u00fan no he tenido tiempo de estudiar con detalle:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margarita_de_Anjou\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Margarita de Anjou<\/a>, reina consorte de Enrique VI. Margarita tuvo que lidiar con la incapacidad -tanto de car\u00e1cter como f\u00edsica- de su marido, incapaz de reinar de manera efectiva, a las que se a\u00f1ad\u00eda su falta de popularidad por ser francesa. Tradicionalmente se la ha presentado como una mujer intrigante y despiadada; en cualquier caso, Margarita al fin y al cabo estaba intentando mantener su posici\u00f3n como reina, la de su marido el rey, y sobre todo, la de su hijo y heredero al trono Eduardo de Westminster.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacquetta_de_Luxemburgo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jaquetta de Luxemburgo<\/a>, madre de Isabel Woodville. Como coment\u00e9 previamente, antes de casarse con el padre de Isabel, Jacquetta fue la segunda esposa de Juan Duque de Bedford, hermano de Enrique V y que se qued\u00f3 a cargo de Francia durante la minor\u00eda de edad de Enrique VI tras el fallecimiento de Enrique V. El Duque de Bedford muri\u00f3 en Ru\u00e1n y fue enterrado en la catedral de dicha ciudad, y aunque su tumba fue destruida por los calvinistas en el siglo XVI, el emplazamiento previo de la misma est\u00e1 marcado con una placa en la actualidad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jafma.net\/ana\/theweekendarchaeologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0382.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1262\" src=\"http:\/\/jafma.net\/ana\/theweekendarchaeologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0382-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jafma.net\/ana\/theweekendarchaeologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0382-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jafma.net\/ana\/theweekendarchaeologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0382-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jafma.net\/ana\/theweekendarchaeologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0382-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cecilia_Neville\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cecilia Neville<\/a>, madre de Eduardo IV y Ricardo III, y suegra por tanto de Isabel Woodville y Ana Neville. Su marido, Ricardo de York, no lleg\u00f3 a reinar nunca, pero a pesar de ello Cecilia firmaba como &#8220;reina por derecho propio&#8221;. S\u00f3lamente por eso me da la sensaci\u00f3n que deb\u00eda ser una mujer de car\u00e1cter y me dan ganas de conocerla mejor \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a id=\"spinoffsESP\"><\/a><br \/>\nY, de regalo, toda esta historia tiene un par de aspectos que tambi\u00e9n son interesant\u00edsimos:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>El hallazgo del cuerpo de Ricardo III en un aparcamiento de Leicester. Ricardo muri\u00f3 en la batalla de Bosworth, y con \u00e9l acab\u00f3 la dinast\u00eda Plantagenet.\u00a0 A lo largo de los a\u00f1os se fue perdiendo la pista de d\u00f3nde hab\u00eda sido enterrado exactamente. Finalmente, en 2012, la Sociedad Ricardo III en colaboraci\u00f3n con la Universidad de Leicester y el Ayuntamiento de la ciudad localizaron el esqueleto de Ricardo III en un aparcamiento construido sobre la antigua iglesia de los franciscanos (en la bibliograf\u00eda incluyo un libro sobre el tema que me encant\u00f3, y en <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theanneboleynfiles.com\/richard-iiis-burial-place-by-josephine-wilkinson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">este enlace<\/a> la historiadora Jo Wilkinson habla sobre el lugar de enterramiento de Ricardo).\u00a0 Ricardo III fue enterrado en 2015 en la Catedral de Leicester.<\/li>\n<li>Un <em>spin off<\/em> que adem\u00e1s es un misterio no resuelto: la historia de los Pr\u00edncipes en la Torre, o c\u00f3mo Eduardo V y su hermano Ricardo de Shrewsbury, los hijos de 12 y 10 a\u00f1os de Eduardo IV e Isabel Woodville, desaparecieron de la Torre de Londres sin dejar rastro en el verano de 1483. Tradicionalmente se ha supuesto que ambos fueron asesinados, y que el responsable fue su t\u00edo Ricardo III, el gran beneficiado de su desaparici\u00f3n, pero no hay evidencias que confirmen ese asesinato m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de cualquier duda razonable (si no, no ser\u00eda un misterio \ud83d\ude09 ). A\u00fan hoy sigue siendo un tema de inter\u00e9s que han abordado diferentes autores. Mi opini\u00f3n como aficionada es que si Ricardo III fue el responsable me extra\u00f1a mucho que no buscara una cabeza de turco a la que cargarle el marr\u00f3n; su actitud de &#8220;\u00bfPr\u00edncipes? \u00bfQu\u00e9 pr\u00edncipes?&#8221; no parece la m\u00e1s l\u00f3gica para un asesino que ten\u00eda todos los medios para cubrirse las espaldas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ea, pues esto es todo. Si alguien est\u00e1 interesado, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conted.ox.ac.uk\/courses\/the-wars-of-the-roses-power-politics-and-personalities-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">este curso<\/a> on line de Oxford sobre la Guerra de las Rosas es un aut\u00e9ntico gustazo. Yo qu\u00e9 quer\u00e9is que os diga, a m\u00ed me todo esto me parece muuuuucho m\u00e1s mol\u00f3n que cualquier saga de ficci\u00f3n (salvo por los dragones, eso lo admito \ud83d\ude09 ). Esta historia es real (nunca mejor dicho), esta gente vivi\u00f3 y sufri\u00f3, y las consecuencias de sus actos se reflejan sobre nosotros unos cuantos siglos despu\u00e9s. Para que luego digan que la Historia no es bonita \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"english\"><\/a><a href=\"#spanish\">[En espa\u00f1ol]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am a Wars of the Roses nerd because of three completely unconnected events that in 2013 created a perfect lancastrianyorkist storm: a research stay in Plymouth, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_White_Queen_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The White Queen TV series<\/a>, and that I was preparing the exams of the Medieval History of the first year of the Bachelor Degree on History (I&#8217;ll take it up again someday, I swear). <em>The White Queen<\/em> was broadcasted shortly after we arrived in UK, and since I tried to watch TV to improve my listening and the series was useful to remind me the courses I was preparing, I binged into it. Furthermore, I believe that UK is the historians&#8217; paradise (or, in my case, wannabe historian), and it was very easy to find books, museums, and places that helped me to learn more about the subject.<\/p>\n<p>The Wars of the Roses is a legit soap opera full of Henrys and Edwards linked by family ties, since they belonged to the House of Lancaster (the red rose) or the House of York (the white rose), both descendants from the House of Plantagenet. In order to put the plot in context (and have a great time), it is very interesting to watch the BBC TV series <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hollow_Crown_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hollow Crown<\/a>, based on the &#8220;historic&#8221; Shakespeare&#8217;s plays that cover the background of the Wars of the Roses and the conflict itself: Richard II (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Whishaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Whishaw<\/a>), Henry IV (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeremy_Irons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeremy Irons<\/a>), Henry V (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_Hiddleston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Hiddleston<\/a>), Henry VI (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_Sturridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Sturridge<\/a>) and Richard III (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benedict_Cumberbatch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benedict Cumberbatch<\/a>). Yes, I have sighed several times too \ud83d\ude42 If you&#8217;d like to take a close look of the history of UK via films and series, here you have <a href=\"https:\/\/crissover.wordpress.com\/2018\/05\/03\/tu-ya-te-sabes-esto-flojiguia-a-la-monarquia-inglesa-y-iii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a set of great posts<\/a> from Cristina Urdiales&#8217;s blog (in Spanish).<\/p>\n<p>A warning before we move on: though all these are well known historical facts, if you reader don&#8217;t t know anything about them and you are hypersensitive about spoilers, just stop reading \ud83d\ude42 ; maybe you&#8217;d like to check the end of this post, where I comment a couple of <a href=\"#spinoffsENG\">spin-offs<\/a> and the <a href=\"#biblio\">references<\/a>. The photos are taken from the gallery of the series at IMDB or are my own. And now let&#8217;s get to it.<\/p>\n<p>The most important male characters in <em>The White Queen<\/em> are shown in the following photograph, the three York brothers: Edward IV (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Irons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Max Irons<\/a>, center), George Duke of Clarence (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Oakes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Oakes<\/a>, left) and Richard Duke of Gloucester and future Richard III (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aneurin_Barnard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aneurin Barnard<\/a>, right). I love this picture, and these are the faces of my mental images of the real characters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pswp__img\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/M\/MV5BYTQ5NTVlMWEtMzgxYi00ODhkLThlNDctNWU5NzQ2NmFlMWJmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjEwNDMwNzI@._V1_SY1000_SX1500_AL_.jpg\" alt=\"The White Queen (2013)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And now let&#8217;s go to the core of this post, the three main female characters: Elizabeth Woodville (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rebecca_Ferguson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rebecca Ferguson<\/a>), Anne Neville (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Faye_Marsay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faye Marsay<\/a>) and Margaret Beaufort (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amanda_Hale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amanda Hale<\/a>). Each of them has a thrilling life, but I find the interaction among them and how events swing them from high to low fascinating. Here in Spain we have several strong and powerful women (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isabella_I_of_Castile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Isabella I of Castile<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Urraca_of_Le%C3%B3n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Urraca of Le\u00f3n<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catherine_of_Lancaster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catherine of Lancaster<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catherine_of_Aragon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catherine of Arag\u00f3n<\/a>&#8230;), but they played more isolated and independent roles.<\/p>\n<p>We begin with Elizabeth Woodville. Elizabeth was born around 1437, and she was the firstborn of Richard Woodville and Jaccquetta of Luxembourg.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pswp__img\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/M\/MV5BMjM2ODI3NDY4OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODE0MjY1OQ@@._V1_SY1000_SX1500_AL_.jpg\" alt=\"Rebecca Ferguson in The White Queen (2013)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Richard belonged to a wealthy but not noble family, and he had been in the service of the Duke of Bedford, uncle of the king at that time Henry VI,\u00a0 while Jacquetta of Luxembourg was the young widower of the Duke of Bedford. Elizabeth married John Grey, a knight supportive of the Lancastrian side, whom she widowed in the second battle of Saint Albans, keeping two children (Thomas and Richard Grey) in her charge. Elizabeth met king Edward IV in a rather <em>hollywoodesque<\/em> way, and they finally got married in secret. Therefore, Elizabeth became queen consort of England, so <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Neville,_16th_Earl_of_Warwick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Neville Earl of Warwick<\/a>, aka the <em>Kingmaker<\/em>, was really pissed off, since had already agreed the marriage of Edward to a foreign heiress, which was the most appropriate thing to do for any king at those times.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth and Edward had a long offspring (here you have a <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y8n644x6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">timeline with the dates of birth<\/a> of each of them thanks to the awesome <a href=\"https:\/\/query.wikidata.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPARQL query service of Wikidata<\/a>). Besides, the queen consort also married her sisters and brothers to noble families, creating a lot of friction in the court, since the Woodvilles were seen as upstarts. Elizabeth suffered the upheavals of Edward&#8217;s governance, including the months when Henry VI seized control back and she had to seek sanctuary on Westminster Abbey.<\/p>\n<p>On April 9th 1483 Elizabeth&#8217;s life turns upside down: Edward IV dies quite unexpectedly and she becames dowager queen and mother of the next king, her son Edward V, that at that moment was at Ludlow Castle (Wales) under the tutelage of her brother Anthony Woodville. From that moment on things change hastily &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/jafma.net\/ana\/theweekendarchaeologist\/?p=745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here you have a chronology<\/a> I created about this issue- but, to cut a long story short, by the end of that summer Elizabeth is no longer the queen since Richard III and Anne Neville are now the rulers; her husband, brother and second boy are dead; all her offspring with Edward IV has been declared illegitimate, her younger kids Edward and Richard whereabouts is unknown, and she is sheltered\u00a0 again in Westminster Abbey with the rest of her daughters. Elizabeth returned to Richard III&#8217;s court, though at the same time she was plotting (with Margaret Beaufort, among others) to revert the situation. In the end she saw her eldest daughter Elizabeth of York became queen when she married Margaret Beaufort&#8217;s son, Henry Tudor, who\u00a0 reigned as Henry VII after defeating Richard III at the battle of Bosworth. Elizabeth would die in retirement at Bermondsey Abbey in 1492.<\/p>\n<p>Between the consort queens Elizabeth Woodville and her daughter Elizabeth of York there was another consort: Anne Neville (1456-1485), daughter of the <em>Kingmaker<\/em> and wife of Richard III. I find her the most tender character due her tragic life, that I commented some years ago in <a href=\"http:\/\/jafma.net\/ana\/theweekendarchaeologist\/?p=410\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pswp__img\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/M\/MV5BZGY1NGI1NjUtNTFmYy00NGJlLWI0MzUtNTU3MDcxOWE1ODkzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjEwNDMwNzI@._V1_.jpg\" alt=\"The White Queen (2013)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To sum up, in 1471, at the age of fifteen, with her father dead and her mother confined in a nunnery, she became the dowager Princess of Wales when her husband, Edward of Westminster, the son of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou, died at the battle of Tewkesbury. In 1472 she married Richard of Gloucester, whom she acquainted since she was a child, and whom paradoxically belonged to the family that had lead hers to disaster. When Richard seized the throne in 1483 she became queen consort, though she could not outlive Richard in his short reign: her only child Edward of Middleham died at 9 years old in 1484, and she followed him in less that a year.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margaret_Beaufort,_Countess_of_Richmond_and_Derby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Margaret Beaufort<\/a>, the hidden figure that finally succeeds. She is shown in the series as an obssessive mother that only wants to put his boy in the throne not matter what, and maybe that is why I do not empathize a lot with her, but it is also true that her life was not easy at all, and that I must read a lot about her yet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pswp__img\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/M\/MV5BMTc2MzE2OTAwNF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjE2MjYwMDE@._V1_SY1000_SX1500_AL_.jpg\" alt=\"Amanda Hale in The White Queen (2013)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Margaret was probably born in 1443, the daughter of John Beaufort Duke of Somerset (the Beauforts were a branch descendant from John of Gaunt, the Lancastrian patriarch; initially bastards, Henry IV made the Beauforts legitimate but specifically banning them the access to the throne). Margaret married Edmund Tudor, half-brother of Henry VI since he was the son of the former queen Catherine of Valois, who after losing her husband Henry V then married to Owen Tudor, a Welsh soldier&#8230; I told you this was a soap opera \ud83d\ude42 ). When they married, Margaret was 12 years old and Edmund was 24. The outcome of this marriage was that, at the age of 13, Margaret was a widower expecting her first child, who would become the first Tudor king, Henry VII.<\/p>\n<p>Later on, Margaret married Henry Stafford, who died in the battle of Barnet (1471) fighting for the Yorkists. She married Thomas Lord Stanley in 1472. Margaret had her place in the court of Elizabeth Woodville, and then in the court of Anne Neville while she plotted with Elizabeth to overthrow Richard III. At the battle of Bosworth (1485) Lord Stanley abandoned Richard III, facilitating the victory to the son of Margaret, Henry, who became king Henry VII. Though she never was queen, Margaret was treated at the king&#8217;s mother, and when Henry VII married Elizabeth of York, Margaret, the Lancastrian winner, became family to Elizabeth Woodville. Margaret died in 1509, and she is buried in Westminster Abbey.<\/p>\n<p>Besides these main female characters, there are other women related to the Wars of the Rose who I would like to study more thoroughly:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margaret_of_Anjou\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Margaret of Anjou<\/a>, queen consort of Henry VI. Margaret had to manage her husband&#8217;s physical and mental incapacity and who was unable to rule in an effective way, as well as her lack of popularity due to the fact that she was French. Traditionally she has been portrayed as an intriguing and ruthless woman; anyway, Margaret was just trying to maintain her position as a queen, that of her husband the king and, above all, that of her son and heir to the throne Edward of Westminster.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacquetta_of_Luxembourg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jaquetta of Luxembourg<\/a>, mother of Elizabeth Woodville.\u00a0 As it was aforementioned, before marrying the father of Elizabeth, she was the second wife to John Duke of Bedford, the brother of Henry V in charge of France during Henry VI&#8217;s minority after Henry V died. The Duke of Bedford died in Rouen and was buried in the cathedral of that city; though his tomb was destroyed by calvinists in the XVI century, nowadays there is a commemorative\u00a0 plaque on the cathedral upon the place of his previous burial.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jafma.net\/ana\/theweekendarchaeologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0382.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1262\" src=\"http:\/\/jafma.net\/ana\/theweekendarchaeologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0382-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jafma.net\/ana\/theweekendarchaeologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0382-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jafma.net\/ana\/theweekendarchaeologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0382-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jafma.net\/ana\/theweekendarchaeologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0382-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cecily_Neville,_Duchess_of_York\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cecily Neville<\/a>, mother of Edward IV and Richard III, and therefore mother-in-law of Elizabeth Woodville and Anne Neville. Her husband, Richard of York, never was king, but yet she signed as &#8220;queen by right&#8221;. Only for that I feel that she had to be a hell of a woman and I am willing to know more about her\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a id=\"spinoffsENG\"><\/a><br \/>\nApart from this main branch, the Wars of the Roses have a couple of collateral aspects that are awesome too:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The discovery of Richard III&#8217;s body in a parking lot in Leicester. Richard died in the battle of Bosworth, and with him also died the House of Plantagenet. Over the years the trace of the exact location of his burial was lost. Finally, in 2012, the Richard III Society working with the University of Leicester and the City Council found Richard&#8217;s skeleton in a car park built upon the ancient greyfriars church (in the references I have included a book about this question that I enjoyed a lot, and in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theanneboleynfiles.com\/richard-iiis-burial-place-by-josephine-wilkinson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this link<\/a> historian Jo Wilkinson explains some aspects about the burial place of Richard). Richard III was buried in 2015 in Leicester Cathedral.<\/li>\n<li>A <em>spin off<\/em> that is also a unsolved mystery: the story of the Princes in the Tower, or how Edward V and his brother Richard of Shrewsbury, the 12 and 10 years old sons of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, disappeared without a trace from the Tower of London in the summer of 1483. Legend has it that both were killed by their uncle Richard III, the main beneficiary of their disappearance, but there is no evidence that confirms this murder beyond any reasonable doubt (otherwise, it would not be a mystery \ud83d\ude09 ). This conundrum still remains an open hot question that has been addressed by different authors. My aficionada opinion is that, if Richard really was the hand behind those killings, he would have created a scapegoat to take the blame; his &#8220;Princes? What princes?&#8221; attitude does not seem the better choice for a murder that had all means to cover his back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s all, folks. For the interested reader, this Oxford <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conted.ox.ac.uk\/courses\/the-wars-of-the-roses-power-politics-and-personalities-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on line course<\/a> about the Wars of the Roses is a real treat. I know I am a nerd, but I find all this stuff much cooler than any fictional saga (except for the dragons, I admit that \ud83d\ude09 ). This is a real story, these people lived and suffered, and the consequences of their deeds are reflected upon us a few centuries later. So you daren&#8217;t tell me that History is not fascinating \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"biblio\"><\/a><br \/>\nBibliograf\u00eda \/ References (<strong>*<\/strong>=<em>le\u00eddo\/finished<\/em>, <strong>^<\/strong>=<em>leyendo\/reading<\/em>, <strong>#<\/strong>=<em>por leer\/to read<\/em>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ashdown-Hill J. (2015) <em>The Dublin King: The True Story of Edward Earl of Warwick, Lambert Simnel and the &#8216;Princes in the Tower&#8217;<\/em>.<span id=\"ebooksProductTitle\" class=\"a-size-extra-large\"> <\/span>The History Press<strong>^<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ashdown-Hill J. (2015) <em>The Mythology of Richard III<\/em>. Amberley Press<strong>*<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ashdown-Hill J.(2017) <em>The Wars of the Roses<\/em>. Amberley Publishing<strong>^<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ashdown-Hill J. (2018) <em>The Mythology of &#8216;The Princes in the Tower&#8217;<\/em>. Amberley Publishing<strong>*<\/strong><strong>^<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Carpenter C. (1997) <em>The Wars of the Roses: Politics and the Constitution in England, c. 1437-1509<\/em>. Cambridge University Press<strong>*<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Carson A. (2013) <em>Richard III. The maligned king<\/em>. The History Press<strong>#<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Castor H. (2011) <em>She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth<\/em>. Faber &amp; Faber<strong>*<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Gregory P., Baldwin D., Jones M. (2011) <em>The Women of the Cousins&#8217; Wars. The Duchess, the Queen and the King&#8217;s Mother<\/em>. Simon and Schuster<strong>*<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Gristwood S. (2014) <em>Blood Sisters. The women behind the wars of the roses<\/em>. Basic Books<strong>^<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Hancock P. A. (2013) <em>Richard III and the murder in The Tower<\/em>. The History Press<strong>#<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Hicks M. (2007) <em>Anne Neville: Queen to Richard III<\/em>. The History Press<strong>*<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Lewis M. (2017) <em>The Survival of the Princes in the Tower: Murder, Mystery and Myth<\/em>. The History Press<strong>^<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Lewis M. (2017) <em>The Wars of the Roses in 100 Facts<\/em>.\u00a0Amberley Press<strong>^<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Licence A. (2016) <em>Red Roses. Blanche of Gaunt to Margaret Beaufort<\/em>. The History Press<strong>#<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Norwich J. J. (2018) <em>Shakespeare King&#8217;s<\/em>. Faber and Faber<strong>#<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Pitt M. (2015) <em>Digging for Richard III. How Archaeology found the king<\/em>. Thames and Hudson<strong>*<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Tey J. (1951) <em>The Daughter of Time<\/em>. 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